Perhaps one of the most useful tools for any Web developer. Create balanced color schemes and then test them against simulated end-user visual impairments. Color Scheme Generator 2 won’t have you regretting those Art History classes you skipped out on as an undergraduate. This free online resource transforms even the worst art-minded techie into a design guru. A preferred method of working with this tool is to take a primary color of your Web page and enter its hex value into the rough conversion input. From here, you can select to view that color’s contrasting colors, or it’s triad, tetrad and analogic colors. Go even further by filtering the colors to their various pastel and muted forms. In a mere matter of minutes you will have more than a full complimentary color schema to work with.

Never again will you painstakingly have to create perfect, flush background tiles for your CSS Web sites. The Stripe Generator handles all possible input values to give you maximum output permutations. Select from a slew of attributes, including stripe size, stripe spacing, colors, background, shadow, gradient and stripe orientation. Each input value functions with user friendly sliders and/or buttons. Refresh after each input to preview your optimized background tile. When you are happy with your design pattern, download the file as a .png for optimized page load times.

Chris Pederick’s saving grace for FireFox users and front-end coders. The Web Developer Toolbar not only helps during the design process by offering colored outlines of document elements, to bind keys to validate pages, and to turn off style and scripting elements – it functions as a brainstorming and study guide for Web developers as well. With a few simple clicks one can see how pages use scripting and advanced styling to function. This is a must have for any serious Web developer.

Check for standards compliancy for all of your mark-up and front-end languages. A great tool for burgeoning SEO experts and Web standards advocates. Simply enter a URL or upload a file from your local machine. Detailed descriptions of errors and potential “why-this-went-wrong-scenarios” make messy code maintenance a breeze.

Need dummy text? The Lorem Ipsum generator turns first level layouts and mockups into professional design templates in seconds. Simply select the number of paragraphs you would like to generate, and within seconds a scalable slice of Cicero’s famous oratorio is delivered right to your screen.

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The Best of the Web for April 2008

HouseBlogger.com– A great resource for land service companies to test their online marketing potential through the art of blogging.

Real Estate Investment Blog – Provided by EquityScout.com, you’ll find the most current information about the real estate industry and how to properly evaluate properties.

SmartMortgageAdvice – Russell Martin’s invaluable advice on financing and buying homes. He’s a residential mortgage advisor with PERL and he’s there to help you.

Carnival of Real Estate – The best blogs of the Real Estate Industry come together to provide you with a wealth of information. Reap the benefits of maximum community input and involvement.

Jim Crawford on ActiveRain – An Atlanta real estate columnist for RealtyTimes.com gives you the run down on the latest industry news.

Flipping Houses – Billed as Real People Connecting to the Real World of Flipping Real Estate, Flipping Houses provides free access to investment real estate tips on maximizing ROI in the land services industry.

Imperial Software Systems is proud to offer an inside look into how a Paperless Office System works, as well as the benefits and advantages of implementing electronic document management in a small business setting

The latest instantiation of our Title Rate Premium Calculator is able to be branded to match any company’s online presence. Imperial Software Systems offers corporations the ability to customize the logo, icons, fonts and colors, as well as programming functions, such as adding new states, regions or calculations.

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Don’t reuse other Title Calculators that recycle the same style and functions. As a Title, Abstract, or Land Service Company it is of best interest to you to implement your own corporate branded calculator from your own Web site to give your clients and end-users a feeling of security, reputability and prestige.

Imperial Software System’s Title Calculator is both easy to use and an affordable small business solution for the real estate industry.

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